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08 Sep

How Cruel Summer Recontextualizes Our Understanding of Teenage Trauma

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This article contains spoilers for Cruel Summer. The Freeform drama Cruel Summer is undoubtedly one of the best TV series of 2021, an addictive teen thriller with a story spread across three distinct timelines and an ending that manages to feel both completely inevitable and deeply shocking. (Plus, there’s the amazing 1990s soundtrack – truly a gift!) Set in the aftermath of a kidnapping in a small Texas town, Cruel Summer follows the story of Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt), the high school queen bee held captive in her vice principal’s home, and Jeannette Turner (Chiara Aurelia), the former dorky nerd…
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26 May

Summer Movie Preview: From Black Widow to The Suicide Squad and Beyond

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The summer movie season has returned. Finally. Once something we all just took for granted, like handshakes and indoor dining, a summertime season stuffed with pricy Hollywood blockbusters and cinematic escapism suddenly feels like a long lost friend. But, rest assured, the summer movie season is genuinely and truly here. It’s maybe a little later than normal, yet it’s still in time for Memorial Day in the States. This is of course happy news since many of the big screen events of this year have been 12 months or more in the offing. A Quiet Place Part II was supposed…
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30 Apr

Best Summer Ever

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
Sage and Anthony have had the “Best Summer Ever” after falling in love at a dance camp in Vermont. Not expecting to see each other again until the following summer, Sage, by a twist of fate, arrives unexpectedly at the same high school as Anthony. Now faced with the drama of high school cliques, an evil cheerleader, and the illegal secret that keeps Sage's family on the move, they are forced to reevaluate their relationship as Tony struggles to be both the high school football star and the dancer he’s always wanted to be.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Apr 27, 2021
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14 Dec

The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 10 Review: A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas

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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 10 It’s beginning to look a lot like Dominion Day in “A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas.” That’s a Canadian holiday which falls in July, as Springfield passes for Canada passing for small-town America in The Simpsons season 32, episode 10. This is a festive dismantling of yuletide cheer. The episode tells the heartwarming story of the making of a Christmas movie. The “Heartmark Channel” sends Mary Tannenbaum (Ellie Kemper), its top candidate to head their Homemaker Mysteries Division, to save A Christmas Ornament for Christmas. Christmas movies are…
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07 Oct

Jurassic World: Dominion Delayed Until Summer 2022

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Jurassic World: Dominion has been encased in amber, set for a stasis from which it will be freed in 2022, one full year from its previous release date. Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have officially pushed back the release date of the third film in the Jurassic World Trilogy to June 10, 2022, moving it from the previously set release date of June 11, 2021. The move occurs the same week in which fellow studio giant Warner Bros. made a 2022 shift of its own for DC movie reboot The Batman, and took its December 2021-slated Black Adam off the…
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08 Jul

Giveaway: Win $750 to Upgrade Your Summer Geek Game

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If you find yourself in a bit of a whirlwind these days, confused and in need of a financially feel-good favor, you’re not alone. We’re all spending a little too much time stress eating chips in front of the TV, properly steering clear of other people by just…not leaving home.  Click here to enter via our official giveaway page. Maybe we need a little more time watching King George III inevitably shower the first row of Disney+’s Hamilton recording with spit…because that’s just royally hilarious. If you’re like the rest of us and need a pick-me-up, then you’re probably also…
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01 Jul

X-Men and Fantastic Four Movies Coming to Disney+ This Summer

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Well, it’s finally happening: there will be X-Men and Fantastic Four movies on Disney+. No, not new Marvel Studios productions, sadly (although if we don’t get this pandemic under control soon it might very well be the only way we’ll be experiencing movies for a while), but a number of the 20th Century Fox…ahem…we mean 20th Century Studios…versions of the merry mutants and the first family of Marvel. Disney+ will become the streaming home of the first X-Men movie (which isn’t as good as you remember), X-Men: Days of Future Past (which might be better than you remember), the forgettable…
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22 May

The Best Summer Movies of All Time

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Ah. Hear that? Probably not, but what should be sounding in the distance is an assortment of pigs and/or cows grilling; the laughter of children running through fields of green; and some radio playing infectious pop music faintly in the distance. After all, it’s Memorial Day weekend. For most Americans that means it’s time to celebrate the longest days of the year with trips to the beach, mountains, or a backyard barbecue pit. This year, however, it means Zooming friends and family from your living room couch and firing up your streaming service of choice. Still, even if movie season…
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12 Jul

Summer Night

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
It?s the last days of summer. Best friends Seth and Jameson are getting ready to perform?and party?at local rock venue The Alamo. But before the night begins, both young men come face- to-face with serious reality checks: Seth receives life-changing news from his girlfriend Mel, and Jameson has to choose between his on-again-off-again girlfriend Corin and a new girl he?s just met, the outspoken Harmony. At the show, Seth and Jameson?s friends are too caught up in their own lives to be much help: young rocker Taylor romances his new crush Dana, and awkward Jack ?Rabbit? avoids his childhood friend…
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14 Jan

La Boyita (aka The Last Summer of La Boyita)

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Recommended Jorgelina (Guadalupe Alonso) has not yet entered puberty, but her curiosity about the changes that are going to happen to her have already taken hold. She steals medical books from her parents and peeks at the diagrams and pictures of women's bodies until she can't stand to keep looking, and she is alternatively fascinated by and infuriated with her older sister, Luciana (Maria Clara Merendino), who has already started getting her period and goes to the beach to try and spend time with boys. All Jorgelina wants is to spend another fun summer playing in the trailer on their…
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07 Aug

Summer of 84

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
Summer, 1984: The perfect time to be 15 years old and care free. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbor might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 10, 2018
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23 Jul

Hot Summer Nights

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Set in Cape Cod over one scorching summer, this fun and stylized thriller follows Daniel (Timothee Chalamet), a teenager who gets in over his head dealing drugs with the neighborhood rebel while pursuing his new partner's enigmatic sister. [A24]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Jul 27, 2018
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09 Jul

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

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Mavis surprises Dracula with a family voyage on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship so he can take a vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. The rest of Drac's Pack cannot resist going along and once they leave port, romance zings Drac when he meets the mysterious ship captain Ericka. Now it's Mavis' turn to play the overprotective parent, keeping her dad and Ericka apart. Little do they know that his "too good to be true" love interest is actually a descendent of Van Helsing, arch nemesis to Dracula and all monsters!Rated: PGRelease Date: Jul 13, 2018
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30 Jun

Nickelodeon Favorites: The Great Summer Campout!

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Rent It Themed "variety pack" collections have been Nick Jr.'s home video bread and butter for well over a decade now: they've basically abandoned chronological season sets, so the recent appearance of The Great Summer Campout on store shelves is hardly surprising at this point. Five episodes are included on this one-disc release: Bubble Guppies' "The Summer Camp Games", Shimmer and Shine's "Treehouse Retreat", Blaze and the Monster Machines' "Truck Rangers",
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21 May

Summer 1993

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
In the summer 1993, following the death of her parents, six years old Frida moves from Barcelona to the Catalan province to live with her aunt and uncle, who are now her new legal guardians. The country life is a challenge for Frida ? time passes differently in her new home and the nature that surrounds her is mysterious and estranging. She now has a little sister for whom she has to take care of and has to deal with new feelings, such as jealousy. Often, Frida is naively convinced that running away would be the best solution to her…
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